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have arrived touching these points, it will be an object so to compress 

 and arrange the materials before us, as to pressnt within a small com- 

 pass, the leading facts and examples, upon which each separate position 

 depends. 



1. That quality of the noun, which, in the shape of an inflection, de- 

 the relative situation of the object, by the contiguous position of 

 some accessory object, is expressed in the English language, by the pre- 

 positions in, into, at, or on. In the Indian they are denoted by an 

 inflection. Thus the phrase, In the box, is rendered in the Indian by one 

 word, mukukoong. Of this word, mukuk, simply, is box. The termi- 

 nation oong,*< the locality, not of the box, but of the object 

 . The expression appears to be precis?, although there is 

 no definite article in the languj 



The substantive tikes this form, most commonly, after a question has 

 '. oindi ni mdkoman-ais ? where is my penknife? Mukuk- 

 -, (on the table.) are definite replies to 

 this question. But the form is not restricted to this relation. Chiman- 

 ing n'guh pdz, I shall embark in the canoe ; wakyigun n'guh izha, I 

 shall go into the house, are perfectly correct, though somewhat formal 

 expressions, when the canoe or the house are present to the speaker's 

 view. 



The meaning of these inflections has been restricted to in, into, at, 

 and on. But they are the more appropriate forms of expressing the 

 three first senses, there being other modes beside these of expressing the 

 preposition on. These modes consist in the use of prepositions and will 

 be explained under that head. The choice of the one, or the other, is, 

 however, with the speaker. Generally, the inflection is employed, 

 when there is some circumstance or condition of the noun, either conceal- 

 ed, or not fully apparent. Thus, Muzzinyigun-ing, is the appropriate 

 term for in the hook, and may also be used to signify on the book. But 

 if it is meant only to signify on the book, something visible being refer- 

 red to, the preposition ogidj would be used, that word indicating with 

 certainty on, and nr;\<;r in, Wakyigun-ing indicates with clearness, in 

 the house ; but if it i y on the house, and it be meant 



at the same time to exclude any reference to the interior, the expression 

 would be changed to ogidj wakyegun. 



It will be proper further to remark, in this place, in the way of limita- 

 ation, that there is also a :; parate preposition sygnifying in. It is pinj. 

 But the use of this word ciojs not, in all cases, supersede the necessity 



